By: Shanna Rose
ORLANDO, Fla.–The West Virginia University baseball team completed the sweep with a 4-3 win over UCF on Sunday afternoon at John Euliano Park. It was the fourth consecutive Big 12 sweep for the Mountaineers (37-5, 16-3 Big 12).
Jack Kartsonas continued to get it done for WVU on the mound, pitching 6.2 innings while allowing three runs and striking out five.
Ben McDougal finished the final 2.1 innings with a perfect performance.
Jace Rinehart had a pair of doubles and knocked in three runs and Sam White drove in the other RBI. Skylar King scored two runs.
Matt Sauser suffered his first loss of the season for the Knights (23-20, 6-15). He gave up four runs on six hits in 4.2 innings.
In the first, Rinehart hit his first double of the day, scoring King and giving the Mountaineers a 1-0 lead. However, UCF answered in the home half to tie the game at 1-1.
DeAmez Ross gave the Knights the lead in the second when he hit a RBI double to left center.
In the fifth, Rinehart just missed hitting a three-run home run when he blasted the ball off the top of right center wall and scoring King and Chase Swain. White’s single to center field scored Rinehart and gave WVU a 4-2 advantage.
The Knights got one run back in the sixth and had the tying run in scoring position in both the sixth and seventh, but Kartsonas and McDougal got out of the jams.
The Mountaineers will be back in action on Wednesday when WVU travels to Charleston to take on Marshall
First pitch is set for 6 p.m.
Photo Credit: WVU Athletics
